Interview: Joseph ‘Mr BeBox’ Palmer

“A couple of months back, Cale Lewis and I (Andrew Lampert) put our heads together and came up with some burning questions about the development of the BeBox and various BeBox prototypes that were built along the way. Given the nature of our questions, we headed straight to the source – Mr BeBox himself, Joseph Palmer – to seek some answers.”

I was lucky enough to catch Joseph Palmer’s BeOS demo at Tokyo MacWorld Expo in 1997 and can testify that he really got into it and did a great job. (See a few pictures here: http://cunningham-lee.com/tiki-index.php?page_ref_id=338 .) It was an exciting phenomenon, all in all, and there hasn’t been anything like it since, IMHO.